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SUMMARY:Brown Out ( A latin funk tribute to Public Enemy)
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, June 19th – Doors open at 7pm – 21+ \nBUY TICKETS HERE \nA 9-piece outfit formed fifteen years ago by members of Grammy Award-winning Latin revival orchestra Grupo Fantasma\, Brownout has evolved into a musical force all its own. After garnering their third Austin Music Award last year\, the band has continued to produce music that is unflinchingly progressive\, while evoking the classic influences of artists such asWAR\, Cymande and Funkadelic. They’ve performed at events including Bonnaroo\, High Sierra Music Festival\, Pickathon\, FFFFest\, Bear Creek Music Festival\, Utopia Festival and Pachanga Fest\, while regularly touring the U.S. Brownout’s also served as a highly in-demand backing band for artists including Prince\, Daniel Johnston\, GZA and Bernie Worrell. \nCURRENT PROJECT: Twenty-eight years ago\, pissed-off twelve-year-olds around the universe discovered a new planet\, a Black Planet. Public Enemy’s aggressive\, Benihana beats and incendiary lyrics instilled fear among parents and teachers everywhere\, even in the border town of Laredo\, Texas\, home of the future founders of the Latin-Funk-Soul-Breaks supergroup\, Brownout. The band’s sixth full-length album (out May 25th) Fear of a Brown Planet is a musical manifesto inspired by Public Enemy’s music and revolutionary spirit. \nChuck D.\, the Bomb Squad\, Flava Flav and the rest of the P.E. posse couldn’t possibly have expected that their golden-era hip hop albums would sow the seeds for countless Public Enemy sleeper cells\, one that would emerge nearly three decades later in Austin\, Texas. Greg Gonzalez (bass) remembers a kid back in junior high hipped him to the fact that Public Enemy’s “Bring the Noise” is built on James Brown samples\, while a teenaged Beto Martinez (guitar) alternated between metal and hip-hop in his walk-man\, and Adrian Quesada (guitar/keys) remembers falling in love with Public Enemy’s sound at an early age. “When I got into Hip hop\, I was looking for this aggressive outlet . . . and I didn’t even understand what they were pissed off about\, because I was twelve and lived in Laredo . . . but I loved it and I felt angry along with them.” \nJoseph Abajian (Fat Beats’ owner) must have sensed the deep hip-hop well lying beneath the versatile band’s Latin-Funk veneer. “I thought their sound would work covering Public Enemy songs\,” Abajian says\, and\, “it was good to know they were P.E. fans . . . We came up with a track listing and they went to work.” Despite the band’s eagerness to work on new original material (an album of original songs is slated for next year)\, they couldn’t pass up the opportunity to pay homage to this iconic and influential posse. \nTranslating sample-based music to a live band turned out to be more of a challenge than they anticipated. Adrian tried to get inside the Bomb Squad’s [Public Enemy’s producers/beat-making team] head in order to find the inspiration to reinterpret P.E.’s songs: “imagine the Bomb Squad going back in time and getting the J.B.s [James Brown’s funky backing band] in the studio and setting up a couple analog synths and then playing those songs.” While some songs closely follow the original musical blueprint\, others use the source breakbeats as jumping-off points later sweetened by Trombonist Mark “Speedy” Gonzales’ horn arrangements\, synth wizardry courtesy of friend-of-the-band Peter Stopschinski\, and DJ Trackstar’s turntable scratches. But don’t listen expecting to hear paint-by-numbers recreations of classic Public Enemy jams. “Our approach is never in the tribute sense\,” Adrian explains. “We’ve always taken it and made it our own\, whether it’s the Brown Sabbath thing or this Public Enemy thing.” \nComing off numerous tours as Brown Sabbath and even a stint backing the late legend Prince\, Brownout is arguably the tightest and funkiest band on the road today and they’re psyched to bring this revolutionary music to the people. For a band without an overt political agenda\, they collectively couldn’t resist the opportunity to play this music live\, especially now. “If there’s any way that we can use the already political and protest nature [of P.E.’s music]\, we would like to try\,” Beto says. “The album’s title\, Fear of Brown Planet is definitely a relevant idea today and we’re not afraid to put it out there\, because we want to speak out.” By reinterpreting these hip hop classics in their unique style and channeling the spirit of Public Enemy that first echoed around the world and captured their imaginations all those years ago\, Brownout is doing exactly that. \nThe band released Brownout Presents Brown Sabbath Vol. II  on October 28th via Ubiquity Records. The recording—the band’s second collection of material by godfathers of metal Black Sabbath—includes reimagined versions of “Fairies Wear Boots\,” “Snowblind” and “Supernaught.” The tracks “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath” and “Symptom of the Universe” features vocals by Ghostland Observatory’s Aaron Behrens. \nBrownout has released four previous albums including Brownout presents Brown Sabbath (Ubiquity Records 2015) Homenaje (Freestyle Records 2008)\, Aguilas & Cobras (Six Degrees 2009) and Oozy (Nat Geo 2012). \nTheir latest release\, Over the Covers (Fat Beats 2017)\, was widely acclaimed by critics and heralds the next chapter for the band as it continues to evolve and explore new and funky musical realms. \n.
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LOCATION:The Siren\, 900 Main St.\, Morro Bay\, CA\, 93422\, United States
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